On 6 July 2005 the International Olympic Committee awarded the right to stage
the 2012 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to London. The decision to
bid for the Games is a politically contentious one, with many arguments ...

Bibliographies, while never complete in their coverage, are useful in a ‘broad brush’ sense in capturing the current state of play in a particular area of research. This publication seeks to do this in the context of the ...

The Conference on Events and Place Making examines the use of events to build communities and to brand destinations, as well as related themes of event management strategies, marketing, operations, human resources, ...

Proceedings from a conference on event evaluation, research and education,
Sydney July 2000. Events are still a relatively new area of academic study and research, and this conference appears to be the first anywhere to ...